MAPT and Alzheimer disease: Concerning AD, a growing body of research, including epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and long-term population surveys, suggests a positive association between daily consumption of plant-based foods and medicinal plants and a reduced risk of the disease, based on observed outcomes such as reduced tau phosphorylation, decreased amyloid aggregation, improved memory function, reduced oxidative stress, and reduced neuronal loss, seen in Table 1 [99,100,101,102,103,104].